Flutter not recognizing cocoapods inside Android Studio 4.1

I cannot run any flutter development application inside Android Studio 4.1 stable on iOS using flutter and am not sure if it is an issue with Android Studio or the Flutter plugin. I am using macOS Catalina Version 10.15.7

I am able to build app within Xcode 12.0.1.

When I try it states:

Launching lib/main.dart on iPhone 11 Pro in debug mode...
Warning: CocoaPods not installed. Skipping pod install.
  CocoaPods is used to retrieve the iOS and macOS platform side's plugin code that responds to your plugin usage on the Dart side.
  Without CocoaPods, plugins will not work on iOS or macOS.
  For more info, see https://flutter.dev/platform-plugins
To install:
  sudo gem install cocoapods

CocoaPods not installed or not in valid state.
Error launching application on iPhone 11 Pro.

With that said I re-installed cocoapods using the following commands:

sudo gem uninstall cocoapods
sudo gem install cocoapods -v 1.7.5
pod setup
sudo gem install cocoapods 

//to get latest version 1.9.3

The cocoapods were still not recognized after these commands.
I uninstalled and re-installed Android Studio.
This did not change the outcome.
I also tried the --pre version of cocoapods. No change.

ran these commands:

sudo gem update
sudo gem clean cocoapods

pod --version 
1.10.0.rc.1

sudo gem --version 
3.0.3

gem list cocoapods      

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

cocoapods (1.10.0.rc.1)
cocoapods-core (1.10.0.rc.1, 1.9.3, 1.7.5)
cocoapods-deintegrate (1.0.4)
cocoapods-downloader (1.4.0)
cocoapods-plugins (1.0.0)
cocoapods-search (1.0.0)
cocoapods-stats (1.1.0)
cocoapods-trunk (1.5.0)
cocoapods-try (1.2.0)

Android studio 4.1 has known issue of not recognizing Dart and Flutter plugins as noted: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/67986

Running flutter doctor using button inside Android Studio on screen within the pubspec.yaml file produces the following:

/Users/tara/flutter/bin/flutter doctor --verbose
[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 1.22.2, on Mac OS X 10.15.7 19H2, locale en-US)
    • Flutter version 1.22.2 at /Users/tara/flutter
    • Framework revision 84f3d28555 (4 days ago), 2020-10-15 16:26:19 -0700
    • Engine revision b8752bbfff
    • Dart version 2.10.2

[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 30.0.2)
    • Android SDK at /Users/tara/Library/Android/sdk
    • Platform android-30, build-tools 30.0.2
    • Java binary at: /Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/jre/jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java
    • Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_242-release-1644-b3-6222593)
    • All Android licenses accepted.

[!] Xcode - develop for iOS and macOS (Xcode 12.0.1)
    • Xcode at /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
    • Xcode 12.0.1, Build version 12A7300
    ✗ CocoaPods not installed.
        CocoaPods is used to retrieve the iOS and macOS platform side's plugin code that responds to your plugin usage on the Dart side.
        Without CocoaPods, plugins will not work on iOS or macOS.
        For more info, see https://flutter.dev/platform-plugins
      To install:
        sudo gem install cocoapods

[!] Android Studio (version 4.1)
    • Android Studio at /Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents
    ✗ Flutter plugin not installed; this adds Flutter specific functionality.
    ✗ Dart plugin not installed; this adds Dart specific functionality.
    • Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_242-release-1644-b3-6222593)

[✓] IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition (version 2020.2.3)
    • IntelliJ at /Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app
    • Flutter plugin installed
    • Dart plugin version 202.7319.5

[✓] Connected device (2 available)
    • sdk gphone x86 arm (mobile) • emulator-5554                        • android-x86 • Android 11 (API 30) (emulator)
    • iPhone 11 Pro (mobile)      • B0415B3C-2E75-4FA5-85E4-425082E20A87 • ios         • com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimRuntime.iOS-14-0 (simulator)
    ! Error: Tara’s iPhone is not connected. Xcode will continue when Tara’s iPhone is connected. (code -13)

! Doctor found issues in 2 categories.
Process finished with exit code 0

Running flutter doctor from terminal outside Android Studio produces the following:

Taras-Mac:~ tara$ flutter doctor -v

[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 1.22.2, on Mac OS X 10.15.7 19H2, locale en-US)
    • Flutter version 1.22.2 at /Users/tara/flutter
    • Framework revision 84f3d28555 (4 days ago), 2020-10-15 16:26:19 -0700
    • Engine revision b8752bbfff
    • Dart version 2.10.2

 
[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 30.0.2)
    • Android SDK at /Users/tara/Library/Android/sdk
    • Platform android-30, build-tools 30.0.2
    • Java binary at: /Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/jre/jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java
    • Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_242-release-1644-b3-6222593)
    • All Android licenses accepted.

[✓] Xcode - develop for iOS and macOS (Xcode 12.0.1)
    • Xcode at /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
    • Xcode 12.0.1, Build version 12A7300
    • CocoaPods version 1.10.0.rc.1

[!] Android Studio (version 4.1)
    • Android Studio at /Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents
    ✗ Flutter plugin not installed; this adds Flutter specific functionality.
    ✗ Dart plugin not installed; this adds Dart specific functionality.
    • Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_242-release-1644-b3-6222593)

[✓] IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition (version 2020.2.3)
    • IntelliJ at /Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app
    • Flutter plugin installed
    • Dart plugin version 202.7319.5

[✓] Connected device (2 available)
    • sdk gphone x86 arm (mobile) • emulator-5554                        • android-x86 • Android 11 (API 30) (emulator)
    • iPhone 11 Pro (mobile)      • B0415B3C-2E75-4FA5-85E4-425082E20A87 • ios         • com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimRuntime.iOS-14-0 (simulator)
    ! Error: Tara’s iPhone is not connected. Xcode will continue when Tara’s iPhone is connected. (code -13)

[hoonji]

Opening Android Studio from the terminal worked for me: open /Applications/Android\ Studio.app

The issue is caused by PATH is not being set correctly when opening Android Studio from GUI - in particular it does not seem to include /usr/local/bin, which is why the which pod command is not found during flutter run.

Originally mentioned here: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/54962#issuecomment-672578610

[AlexanderThiele]

just leaving my 2 cents: I updated Android Studio to 2021.1.1 Patch 3 which fixed the issue for me.